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THE WAR AND 
THE JEW 

A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE 

WORLD'S SITUATION 

AND THE JEWS' 

PLACE IN IT 

BY THE 

REV. 5. B. ROHOLD, F. R. G. S. 

Pastor Christian Synagogue, Toronto; President 

Hebrew Christian Alliance of America; 

Asst. Editor "Missionary Review 

of the World;" Missionary 

Editor "Jewish Era" 

INTRODUCTION BY THE 

REV. T. B. KILPATRICK, D.D. 

Professor of Systematic Theology, 
Knox College, Toronto 




CINCINNATI 

THE STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY 



Copyright, 1917 
The Standard Publishing Company 






OCT -8 1917 



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PREFACE 

The author of the following pages 
may be truly described as ^^an 
Hebrew of the Hebrews." 

He was born in Jerusalem, the sor 
of a Jewish Rabbi, who was so in- 
tense a nationalist that he would use 
no language but Hebrew. Born of 
such parentage, he maintained, as a 
Christian, the full fervour of Jewish 
patriotism. That love of his own peo- 
ple, which flamed in the heart of the 
Apostle Paul, has inspired the auth- 
or's whole Christian life and minis- 
try, and glows with the utmost ardor 
in these pages. 

In the midst of incessant and labor- 
ious toil, as head of a Hebrew Chris- 



vi PREFACE 

tian Church, with manifold educa- 
tional, social, and philanthropic 
enterprises, he has found time to 
acquaint himself with the situation of 
his people throughout the World, 
and especially in those countries 
which are involved in the present 
awful conflict. He has compressed 
into a few pages some of the m.ost 
telling facts of that situation. He is 
well aware of the feelings, with which 
Jews are regarded in all the lands of 
their dispersion, ranging all the way 
from coldness and suspicion to dis- 
like and bitter enmity. But he 
proves, and illustrates by abundant 
eAddence, two amazing facts. 

First : Jews are among the trusted 
servants of all the Powers now en- 
gaged in war. 

Second : Jews are loyal to the coun- 



PREFACE ^ 

tries of their nativity, and are to be 
found, by the thousands, fighting in 
the armies of their various national- 
ities. 

Mr. Rohold is a loyal citizen of 
Canada, and subject of King George; 
and is enthusiastically on the side of 
the Allies in this great conflict for 
justice and freedom. But he writes 
with a deep sense of the tragedy, in 
which, in a peculiar sense, the war 
has involved the Jew. Men of Jewish 
race are confronting one another aa 
enemies on the battlefield. In Rus- 
sia, too, another drop of bitterness is 
added to the cup, which the Jew has, 
in these days, to drink. The tale of 
the deportations of Jews from one 
part of Russia to another is very ter- 
rible. Mr. Rohold is careful not to 
lay the blame on the Russian people. 



viii PREFACE 

but on the bureaucracy, whicli, in its 
harassing of the Jews, as well as in 
its treatment of the Finns, has been 
acting under German instigation. 

One momentous question, which 
arises out of the facts presented to 
us in these pages, is this : Will the War 
issue in the amelioration of the lot of 
the Jews, in those lands, where they 
have lain under suspicion and dis- 
abilities, where, none the less, they 
have poured out their treasures and 
their lives on behalf even of those 
who have persecuted them? 

We are prepared to stake our all 
for Belgium and for Serbia. Is there 
nothing to be done to secure for the 
Jew just and equitable treatment ? It 
is to ask that question that Mr. 
Rohold has written these brief but 
pregnant pages. 



PREFACE IX 

Readers will note with interest his 
treatment of one aspect of the Jewish 
question, viz., the future of Palestine. 
His suggestion, that it should be 
taken from Turkish control and con- 
stituted an independent State under 
the suzerainty of Egypt, is deeply 
interesting, in view both of Old Testa- 
ment prophecy and of modern inter- 
national politics. 

It may be added, as a minor point 
of interest, that Mr. Rohold was 
brought up, speaking three langu- 
ages : Hebrew with his father, Span- 
ish with his mother, and Arabic with 
his playmates. Yiddish is the speech 
in which his pastoral and missionary 
work is done. 

To these he adds cultivated and 
fluent English. He is himself a re- 
markable instance of the intellectual 



X PREFACE 

ability and the force of character 
which have set so many of his people 
in positions of dignity and trust in 
every nation under heaven. 

T. B. KlLPATRICK. 

Knox College. 



CONTENTS 

1. The Jfw 3 

2. Is THE Jew Wanted? . . _ - 7 

3. The Third Exile 10 

4. The World Tragedy - - - - 11 

5. Is THE Jew Paying His Fair Share ? 14 

6. Great Britain - 18 

7. Francs 24 

8. Belgium 25 

9. Italy - - 26 

10. Germany 29 

11. Austria-Hungary 33 

12. The Interest op Eleven Nations 

Entrusted to a Jew - - - - 34 

13. Russia 43 

14. Zionism 66 

15. ZiON Mule Eegiment - - - - 70 

16. Net Results 74 

17. Scapegoat 76 

18. Palestine 77 

19. Has Israel's Sorrow Ended? - - 93 

20. The Sun Rose Upon Him - - . 95 



ILLUSTRATIONS 

Opposite Page 

Not Wanted - - - - FrovMspiece 

Lord Reading 19 

Henry Morgenthau 3-1 

Lieutenant Frank de Pass - - - 51 
Dr. Mosei Nahum 66 



TO ENGLAND 

By An Alien-Bom. 

Thou art not my step-motlier, England, 
My Sister of Mercy thou art, 

Who healed with a balsam of Freedom 
The sore of a wanderer's heart. 

I had not a mother-land, England, 
The land that had given me birth 

Denied to my wandering People 
A haven of rest on God's earth. 

In childhood I learned to love thee, 
Thy name was a legei2.i to me: 

I dreamt of a distant great island, 
Where men can be strong, yet be free. 

And I whom the clatter of fetters 
Had deafened in childhood and youth, 

I bless thee for giving me refuge 
And faith in the triumph of truth. 

Thou art not my step-mother, England, 
]\Iy Sister of Mercy thou art. 

And now in the hour of your trial 
I feel your true brother at heart. 

P. M. Raskin. 

Jewish Chronicle, July 2, 1915. 



"Tribes of the wandering foot and weary 

breast, 
How shall ye flee away, and be at rest! 
The wild dove hath her nest, the fox his cave. 
Mankind their country, Israel but the grave/' 

— Byron. 



The War and The Jew 



The Jew 

And Jacob was left alone. — Genesis xxii : 2^, 

The vivid Biblical narrative of the 
*' first Israelite'', is a divinely-true 
life-picture of the ever-burning bush 
and history's riddle, the weather- 
tossed individual, who floats like oil 
on the surface of all peoples. Not 
only is this Biblical history, a true 
life-description of the Patriarch to 
be typically realized by his posterity, 
but it is the very life-long experience, 
in its minutest detail, of Israel as a 



4 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

nation since the days of Jacob up to 
this very day in which we live. The 
divine Word of God is here telling us 
the very future of this people. 

What a faithfully true description 
is here given us, of a masterly, clever, 
resourceful, and in many ways, a 
most successful man! He tells us: 
*^With my staff I passed over this 
Jordan, and now I am become two 
bands.'' He would be considered to- 
day a very wealthy man indeed. He 
is also a very religious man, knows 
God, acknowledges His faithfulness, 
and records the results of the many 
blessings which God had graciously 
bestowed upon him. Now we behold 
this masterful man desperately afraid 
of his own brother, and in his desper- 
ation he resorts to all kinds of strata- 
gems and humiliation to connive a 



THE JEW S 

plan to appease the anger of his 
brother. He sends a costly present 
to ''mj lord Esau". But, oh, all these 
masterful resources are of no avail, 
and we see here poor broken-down 
Jacob left alone, in utter darkness. 
In his loneliness he finds himself in 
a fearful combat, wrestling with a 
mysterious person and being wound- 
ed. There comes a great awakening, 
and he realizes that he is at war, not 
with a mere man, but with God, and 
that it was God Who had given him 
this new name ^^ Israel.'' This new 
experience changes his heart and 
whole life, and to witness of his new 
faith he calls *Hhe name of the place 
Penuel; for I have seen God face to 
face." It is at this very point that 
*'The sun rose upon him." All his 
fears left him. 



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This tossed life of the *^ first Israel- 
ite", is the past, present, and future 
of modern Israel. The Jew, with all 
his amazing vitality, creative ability, 
moral and religious resourcefulness, 
and all the other attributes that are 
being attributed to him by friend and 
foe, is the loneliest man on the face 
of God's earth. Like the Patriarch 
of old, he is afraid of his f ellowman, 
and in spite of the many lessons 
of Jehovah's past faithfulness and 
graciousness, he stoops to all kinds 
of humiliations without any good 
result. Modern Israel, though bear- 
ing that princely, new, God-given 
name, has not yet awakened to the 
fact that he is at war with God, and 
that the person he is wrestling with 
is none other than Jehovah — Jesus. 
Then, and then only, when the people 



!S THE JEW WANTED? 7 

of Israel have awakened and recog- 
nized that the ^^Man of Sorrows'' is 
none other than their long-rejected 
Messiah, their only Hope and King; 
and cry out ^^ Blessed is He that 
Cometh in the name of Jehovah", 
the ^^Sun" will rise upon them and 
all sorrows and sadness will flee away. 

Is THE Jew Wanted ? 

In one of the leading Jewish papers 
appeared a sketch of a Patriarchal, 
venerable Jew, holding in his hand 
the Globe of the Universe, earnestly 
searching to find a place where he is 
wanted, but he cannot find a spot on 
it. He begins to go over them by 
name: *^ Russia, I am not wanted 
there — Grermany, not wanted there — 
Roumania, not wanted there — 
France, not wanted there — England; 



8 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

Canada the United States^ Pales- 
tine, I am not wanted there, and ex- 
claims: ^^This is a large, beautiful 
world, but no place for me!" 

Let us be frank. It is our duty to 
be frank and honest as we consider 
the position and place the Jew is 
occupying in the world, and learn if 
he is wanted anywhere. This awful, 
bloody, titanic struggle of the great 
nations of the earth for supremacy, 
demands that everyone should be per- 
fectly frank and absolutely honest. 
Let us consider this question — Is the 
Jew wanted ? "Well, the Jew may be 
tolerated, but not wanted. In what- 
ever condition he is living, whether 
Orthodox, Reformed, Radical, or 
Christian, he may be tolerated, but 
he is not wanted ; yet at the same time 
sought after. It is most remarkable 



IS THE JEW WANTED? 9 

that this Jew who cannot find a place 
on the globe, should at the same time 
be so amazingly sought after by all 
the nations at this present time, 
especially by the warring nations. 
And what an amazing role he is play- 
ing in this life and death struggle of 
the nations! Students of prophecy 
must ponder over him — politicians, 
financiers, and military experts must 
all carefully consider him. Yes, he 
is being already talked over, dreaded, 
honoured, and flattered ; and yet, like 
Jacob of old, ^^he is left alone", and 
in his fearful loneliness desperation 
and fear face him everywhere. And 
in this sad, dark condition, like the 
Patriarch of old, he is paying a very 
high price — trying to buy himself 
into the good graces of his brother 
Esau, forgetting that Israel is a 



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Prince and should not stoop to sncli 
degrading humiliations. 

The Third Exile 

A name, or a day, yea even a cer- 
tain hour, bears some particular sym- 
bolic meaning to the Jew ; and it was 
of sad significance that this great 
war w^as declared on Britain and her 
Allies, on the saddest and darkest day 
in Israel's history, for it was the 9th 
of Ab, the anniversary of the destruc- 
tion of the Temple in Jerusalem. 
Twice, on the very same day, but at 
different periods, fire was set to the 
Temple in Jerusalem, and the people 
led into captivity, the first by Nebuc- 
hadnezzar, the Babylonion; and the 
second by Titus, the Roman. By 
strange coincidence, while the Jewish 
people were fasting and sitting on the 



THE WORLD TRAGEDY 11 

bare floors of their Synagogues, recit- 
ing the Lamentations of Jeremiah, 
and other sad odes, wailingly com- 
memorating that mournful event, war 
was declared by the nations of the 
earth, and thus ushered in the Third 
Exile. And, oh, this Third Exile of 
the Fourth of August, 1914, is perhaps 
vaster in its fierceness than the first 
and second captivities, for it has 
brought greater sorrows and suffer- 
ings to a larger number of the *^ Wan- 
dering feet and weary breast". 

The World Tragedy. 

What an inhuman tragedy is being 
enacted before our very eyes! We 
seethe Jewries of the world convulsed 
with trials and sufferings, such as 
even they cannot parellel in their 
long-drawn annals. Scattered 



12 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

throughout the world, massed in un- 
due numbers in the very crater of 
the world-war, they are passing in 
real truth through the ^^ valley of the 
shadow'', and are stumbling in its 
brooding darkness. Old problems, 
old difficulties, and sorrows have 
evaporated, in the one overpowering 
agony of an unprecendented conflict. 
The world-struggle is searching the 
very vitals of the race, stirring its 
energies, revolutionizing its life, and 
transforming its outlook. Five hun- 
dred and fifty thousand gallant sol 
diers at war in an internecine con- 
test, as far as they are concerned! 
Jew is engaged in mortal combat 
with Jew. Jewry is driven into 
mutual enmity and hate imposed b} 
the warring nationalities. Pour mi"' 
lions of them, men, women, and chi 



THE WORLD TRAGEDY 13 

dren, of all ages; strong, weak, 
healthy, and sick, in full flight, haunt- 
ed by the thundering cannon, into the 
wasted roads, marshy fields, bogs, and 
wild forests ; disorganized, terrorized, 
abandoning land, stock, treasures, 
and all the chords of a home, in order 
to save their bare lives. Hunger and 
starvation meet them everywhere, 
and as they pass through the ^^ Valley 
of Shadows" new horrors overtake 
them every hour. The very life is 
lost in the attempt to save it. 'So 
^^ Promised Land'' in sight. ^^ All hope 
abandoned there ! ' ' Our hearts break 
as we gaze at this horror-full, grim, 
and continuously moving panorama 
of Israers bitter and tragic flight. 
Yes, Israel, the *^ world tragedy'', 
may well cry aloud, ^^Is it nothing to 
you, all ye, that pass by? Behold, and 



14 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

see if there be any sorrow like unto 
my sorrow." (Lam. 1:12.) 

Is THE Jew Paying His Fair Share? 

It would be very helpful for us to 
take a full retrospect of the contribu- 
tion the Jew is making to this world- 
conflict. We must confess, that at 
the beginning of our study and exam- 
ination into this bloody struggle, en- 
deavouring to learn the true position 
the Jew is occupying and the correct 
role he is playing in this world-drama 
of frightfulness, we were amazed, 
hardly believing our own eyes. We 
found the Jew imperishable as ever, 
strenuously leading in all the episodes 
of the war; in its politics, in its 
economy, in its finances, in its organ- 
izations, in its supplies, in its armies, 
Mid all its horrors; paying a very 



THE JEW'S SHARE IS 

high price gloriously to the best tra- 
ditions of the race. 

The Jew, living among the nations, 
derives benefits from the governments 
and all their institutions, and it is 
but right that he should pay in full 
for the privileges he enjoys. It is 
good for us to see things as they really 
are. With all our boastful twentieth 
century enlightenment and generous 
liberality, the Jew is still looked upon 
as **a stranger within our gates", 
and thus, he is only 'tolerated'', and 
therefore something extra is expected 
from him. The populace who never 
take the trouble to think, but believe 
all that is told them, have already 
been asking ^^What is the Jew do- 
ing?" Our heart often failed us 
when reading epistles on the question 
in the daily press, and we asked, is 



16 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

there no one to open the eyes of the 
blind? 

But is he paying a fair share ? We 
find that the total population of this 
great universe of ours is something 
like 1,623,000,000. Of this great world 
population there is something like 
760,000,000 who are being affected by 
the war. That means that the world 
is contributing 46 per cent, of her 
total population. What is the total 
population of the Jews in the world ? 
The highest estimate you can give is 
something like 14,500,000. The total 
number of Jews affected by this war 
is over 10,000,000. This means that 
while the whole population of the 
world is contributing only 46 per 
cent., the Jew contributes 68 per 
cent. 



THE JEW'S SHARE 17 

What is the total number of the 
armies? There are now twelve 
nations fighting. A full estimate of 
the armies fighting is something like 
20,000,000, or 2 6/10 per cent, of the 
nations engaged. What is the total 
number of Jews engaged in the war ^ 
It is the biggest army the Jews have 
ever put forth. A conservative esti- 
mate, given in the Jewish Chronicle^ 
is over 550,000. This means that 
while the nations of the earth are 
contributing to this war 2 6/10 per 
cent., the Jew is contributing over 
double that — 5 5/10 per cent. 

This is only the number of men 
fighting, but when you begin to look 
into the machinery of this war and 
the role the Jew is playing, and the 
results of that great machinery from 
beginning to end, you wonder that 



18 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

the nations of the earth should be 
trusting to such machinery. 

Great Britain 

We find that when the German 
Chancellor lost his temper and de- 
clared that treaties were mere scraps 
of paper, he was speaking to Sir B. 
Goshen, G.C.B., British Ambassador 
to Germany. His father was a poor 
Polish Jew, who came over to Lon- 
don, England, and who tells us that 
he wanted to become a clerk in a 
bank, but they would not take him 
because his handwriting was bad. He 
sought to become a partner in the 
bank, but he had no money, so he 
opened a bank himself. He became 
Viscount Goshen, Member of the 
Privy Council, and at one time First 
Lord of the Admiralty, and his son 




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as the representative of the Great 
British Empire at the Grerman Court, 
had to stand up for the honour of 
Great Britain, and he did it to the 
utmost satisfaction of his Sovereign 
and country. 

The number of Jews in the British 
Isles, according to the Jewish World 
of September 29, 1915, is 245,000, 
and the Jewish senior Chaplain tells 
us that 17,000 Jews have joined the 
ranks and have amazed everyone by 
their valour, resourcefulness, and 
heroism, while hundreds have secured 
medals, four of them having secured 
the most coveted honour, that of the 
Victoria Cross. We find that five of 
them are holding positions in the 
British Cabinet. One has become 
Lord Chief Justice, five are in the 
House of Lords, six are Privy Coun- 



20 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

cillors, sixteen are Baronets, fourteen 
are Knights, and there are eighteen 
Members of Parliament. To keep 
Ireland in order they had to put a 
Jew, Sir Matthew Nathan, in as 
Secretary. A handful of Jews — ^yet 
monopolize such important Grovern- 
mental positions I Is this the Jew who 
is not wanted? Evidently the lead- 
ing authorities in Great Britain de- 
light to praise and flatter him. 

There is a day in British politics 
that is a pre-eminent day, a day on 
which the Prime Minister and the 
Cabinet Ministers usually make great 
speeches at the Mansion House, which 
is known as the Lord Mayor's Bay; 
and on that great day in November, 
1914, just after the war was started, 
the Prime Minister, in making his 
great political and momentous speech 



GREAT BRITAIN 21 

and speaking of British finances and 
how they were being managed, re- 
ferring to the remarkable success that 
had attended the arrangements made 
by the Government in connection 
with the financial measures taken in 
consequence of the war, went out of 
his way to make the following eulogy 
in praise of a Jew: 

^'1 desire in that connection to mention two 
names, and two names only, because they are 
the names of men who are entirely outside 
the current of our political controversies. The 
first is that of my noble and learned friend. 
Lord Reading, the Lord Chief Justice of 
England, without whom, as the Chancellor 
of the Exchequer would tell you, these satis- 
factory arrangements could not possibly have 
been made. He has devoted three months of 
valuable time day by day to assisting the 
Government in the prosecution and com- 
pletion of their plans. The other name is 
that of the Governor of the Bank of Eng 
land, Mr. Walter Gunliffe." 



22 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

Who is this Lord Chief Justice? 
Not long ago he was plain Mr. Isaacs. 
His father may have been a poor Jew, 
but now the Prime Minister of all 
the Britains delights to honour him, 
and he is being hailed as a ^* British 
lion". 

To-day, Britain, France, and Rus- 
sia send across a commission to New 
York to secure a large loan — a colossal 
loan of billions — and who is the head 
of the commission? ^*Mr. Isaacs!'^ 
But all the papers call him Lord 
Reading, G.C.B., K.C.V.O., and he is 
known as the Lord Chief Justice and 
a Privy Councillor of the British Em- 
pire, and being enshrouded with all 
the other honours, ' ' Isaacs ' ' sinks into 
oblivion, and the original personality 
is unrecognizable. Nevertheless, it is 
this noble Jew, Mr. Isaacs, who is the 



GREAT BRITAIN 23 

actual head of the commission, and 
who is handling the finances of the 
allied warring nations. 

Some have the notion that the Jew 
will be the ultimate force in bringing 
to an end this titanic struggle, and the 
balance of favour will come to those 
nations with whom the best of the 
Jewry will throw in their lot. If this 
may actually come to pass or not, we 
would not venture to prophesy. 

The Right Hon. David Lloyd 
George told the world at the begin- 
ning of the war, that the nation which 
could hold on and produce the last 
few hundred millions, when all the 
others have been depleted of their 
treasures, will be the masters. 

And what do we see here? The 
head of the Allies' Financial Com- 
mission is a Jew, who undoubtedly 



24 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

loves Britain and he would gladly 
give his very life for her. ISTow, who 
is his great opponent ? Mr. Jacob H. 
Schiff, the great financier, who equal- 
ly loves Grermany. And the world 
witnessed a great battle between the 
two Jews. And the result was that 
the Right Hon. Lord Reading, the 
British- Jewish-Lion, came out vic- 
torious over the one-headed German- 
Jewish-Black-Eagle, and thus secured 
a loan in the United States for Bri- 
tain and her Allies of Five Hundred 
Millions* 

Fran"CE 

The total Jewish population of 
France is a little over 100,000. Be- 
fore the war, in the regular army 
there were eight Grenerals, fourteen 
Colonels, twenty-one Lieutenants, 



BELGIUM 25 

sixty-eight Majors, and one hundred 
and seven Captains; but now over 
10,000 are in the ranks, and are doing 
gallant work on land, sea, and air. 
General Heymans is in charge of one 
Army Corps. Five Jews are holding 
important positions in the Cabinet. 
The Rothschilds of France, feeling 
that their country has been outraged, 
and to record their patriotism, have 
returned to the Austrian Emperor 
the title of nobility which his ances- 
tor, a century ago, had bestowed upon 
them. 

Belgium 

This heroic little nation that has 
suffered, and is suffering, so much 
from the ravages of this war, shelters 
15,000 Jews, where they were emanci- 
pated in 1815. The relation of Bel- 



26 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

gium to Great Britain at this time is 
of utmost importance, in fact, it 
means life and death to her. The 
future of Belgium depends on the 
Allies, and she needs at this time the 
best possible man to represent her in 
Great Britain — a man who is not only 
loyal and has an absolute love for his 
country, but a strong man with brains 
and character. And the man the 
King of the Belgians chose as his 
Ambassador to the Court of St. 
James, London, is a Jew — M. 
HymansI The first man to be taken 
as a hostage by the Germans, when 
entering Antwerp, was a Rothschild. 

Italy 

It was not till 1870, that the Jews 
were actually emancipated, and yet 
they have not only made rapid strides. 



ITALY 27 

but the actual important positions of 
honour and trust occupied by them is 
amazing. There is practically no 
Jewish question, at least not for the 
present. The total Jewish popula- 
tion is 45,000, and they have provided 
Italy lately with a Prime Minister, 
Signor Luigi Luzzatti (1910), who 
previously served as Minister of 
Finance on six occasions. Sixteen 
members of Parliament and fourteen 
Senators are Jews, The President of 
the Council of State, Signor Malvano, 
and Baron Sidney Sonnino, Minister 
of Foreign Affairs, these two noble 
Jews, are the best hated men in Ger- 
many, because they could see through 
the tactics of its special Ambassador, 
Prince Von Bulow, and not only frus- 
trated, but actually checkmated all 
his political manoeuvres, so that he 



28 THE WAR AND TPIE JSW 

had to return to Germany with his 
Italian wife, a complete failure, and 
fell into disfavour with the impetuous 
Kaiser ! 

For the moment the most con- 
spicuous man in Italy is M. Salvatore 
Barzilai, whom King Victor Em- 
manuel appointed as a Cabinet Min- 
ister. Mr. Will J. Guard, Rome cor- 
respondent of the New York Sun, 
July 19th, 1915, gives a vivid account 
of the new Minister, and of the en- 
thusiasm prevailing all over Italy. 
While the Jew is hated and not want- 
ed, Italy is wild with joy over the 
newly-found hope. He tells us: 
^^ Managing to pass the gate to Signor 
Barzilai's garden, I succeeded in 
meeting with him for a few minutes, 
surrounded by personal and political 
friends. . . . The procession ar- 



GERMANY 29 

rived. The streets were packed with 
people, shouting and cheering, while 
a band played the Garibaldi. It was 
time for Barzilai to show himself on 
the balcony. When the new Minister 
did appear there was a great outburst 
of Latin enthusiasm." One wonders 
if this Italian idol did realize that 
he belongs to a people that are **not 
wanted"! General Otholenghi, late 
Minister of War and newly-made 
Senator, is the idol of the army. 
Senator Ludovico Mortara has just 
now become President of the Court 
of Cassation, a position equivalent to 
that of the Lord Chief Justice in 
England. 

Germany 

The 615,000 Jews of Germany have 
not yet been fully emancipated ; they 



30 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

are still fighting for equality and the 
removal of certain disabilities. The 
prevailing anti-semitism, with all its 
nefarious propagandas, could not 
stem the tide of the onrushing pro- 
gress of the Jew in Germany. In fact, 
since the war was started, not only 
were some leading anti-semitic papers 
suppressed, but some of its leaders 
professed conversion in favour of the 
Jew on account of their loyalty — for- 
sooth ! 

German Jews have fully contri- 
buted their share towards that re- 
markable display of efficiency, both 
military and economic, which has 
astounded the world. In every branch 
of the social and political life of Ger- 
many the Jew has left his mark. 
Karl Marx laid down the scientific 
foundations of socialism, and Ferdin- 



GERMANY 31 

and Lassalle founded the German 
Social Democratic party, and its lead- 
ers up to the present head, Hugo 
Hasse, were all Jews. The head of 
the Revisionist party is Edward 
Bernstein, who on account of his 
anti-war view, is an exile in Switzer- 
land. What an irony, that the only 
man who dared to defy the Kaiser 
in the Reichstag, and vote openly 
against the German war loan, and 
was not beheaded, was Herr Lieb- 
knecht, a Jew ! Germany, seeing that 
her popularity in the United States 
was on the wane, chose the man whom 
she thought could best possibly attain 
the unattainable, and sent her Col- 
onial Secretary, Dr. Bernhard Von 
Dernburg, as special Ambassador; 
and this poor Jewish Ambassador 
made a tragic, heroic effort to white- 
wash his Kaiser 1 



32 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

The secret of what success there 
has been up till now in the Grerman 
armies lies in their wonderful organ- 
ization of transportation. To pick 
up an army of 500,000 or 1,000,000 
and transplant them from one scene 
of war to another — the importance of 
and the responsibility of the person 
in charge is immense. He must not 
only be most capable, and with the 
best possible brain power, but he must 
be absolutely trusted. And the only 
man the German Emperor could find 
was a Jew. To Herr Arthur Ballin 
the Kaiser entrusted the general 
management of all the German rail- 
ways, and he is personally in charge 
of the transportation of all the Ger- 
man troops. He has already received 
the highest grade of the Iron Cross. 
This all-important position of con- 



AUSTRIA-HUNGARY 33 

fidence, trust and honour bestowed 
upon a Jew, has been galling to the 
anti-semites. But this Jew, who is 
not wanted, is most desirable now. 
Iron crosses have been lavished 
galore on the German Jewish soldiers. 
The latest record brings it up to 3,167 
Iron Crosses. 

Austria-Hungary 

The census of 1910 tells us that 
Austria shelters 1,313,687 Jews, and 
Hungary 932,416. While there are 
still many disabilities, and Grerman 
anti-semitism has been rampant, yet 
in the army they have equal rights. 
Before the war there was one Field 
Marshal, Von Schweitzer, another 
has been added by the promotion of 
Adolph Komhaber Von Pilis; six 
Generals, seventeen Colonels, fifteen 



34 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

Lieutenant-Colonels, forty-eight 
Majors, and two hundred and eleven 
other officers. It is estimated that 
since the war 180,000 Jews have join- 
ed the ranks. Dr. Victor Adler is 
the leader of the Democratic party. 

The Interest of Eleven Nations 
Entrusted to a Jew 

To be an Ambassador at the Turk- 
ish Court, and to look after the inter- 
ests of one country, is enough to tax 
the energies of any man. The posi- 
tion of Turkey is so precarious that 
an Ambassador has very peculiar and 
very delicate duties to perform ever, 
in time of peace. The four or five 
hundred General Consuls, Consuls, 
and Vice-Consuls, and Dragomans 
have their hands more than full to 
look after the interest of their own 




Henry Morgenthau 



THE TRUST OF THE NATIONS 35 

country's subjects, and the trouble 
they get into daily; for the Consul 
must act as a judge, valuator of taxes, 
decide marriage and divorce ques- 
tions, be a peace-maker and a mili- 
tary expert at the same time. He 
must also possess a brazen audacity, 
combined with a restraining politic, 
dignified tact. A Consul may once 
or twice a week have to protest to a 
wily Pasha, threaten a Governor, or 
warn a Chief of Police. He must re- 
port minutely to the Ambassador at 
Constantinople, who must not only 
deal very carefully with these reports 
and issue orders, but also keep his 
Government minutely and correctly 
informed. There are often emer- 
gencies in a Turkish country, and the 
Ambassador must be alert, resource- 
ful, and ready for the occasion. That 



36 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

is in time of peace, and to represent 
one country adequately keeps the 
Ambassador alive; time of war is 
quite a different matter ; it is only the 
best trained men that are able to en- 
dure it for any length of time. But 
here we have something unpreced- 
ented, a thing inconceivable — one 
Ambassador to take charge of and 
look after the interest of ten nations, 
besides that of his own, and at such 
a fearfully critical time in the world's 
history. Here is actually one man to 
whose hands have been entrusted the 
lives, property and interests of eleven 
nations within the Turkish Empire. 
The Honourable Mr. Henry Morgen- 
thau, the United States' Ambassador 
at Constantinople, has for the last 
fifteen months been bearing a super- 
human strain which is most remark- 



THE TRUST OF THE NATIONS 37 

able, as it is at the same time most 
commendable. 

The Honourable Henry Morgen- 
thau is a Jew who arrived in United 
States when three years of age, and 
he had no military or political train- 
ing, but became a very successful, 
leading business man, and he has been 
found worthy to be chosen as an Am- 
bassador for his adopted country, in 
the capital of Turkey. To the hands 
of this emigrant Jew the interests of 
all these nations have been entrusted. 
He is practically responsible for the 
lives, property, and interests of Great 
Britain, France, Russia, Belgium, 
Serbia, Montenegro, Switzerland, 
Denmark, Argentine Republic, Italy, 
and the United States, within the 
Turkish Empire. And he has done 
his work so well that he has received 



3S THE WAR AND THE JEW 

the praise and gratitude of all these 
countries. Sir Louis Mallett, the 
British Ambassador, is full of praise, 
and in his despatch he openly declar- 
ed his gratitude : 

*^It would be impossible to exaggerate the 
assistance which I have received from Mr. 
Morgenthau, the United States Ambassador 
(says the late British Ambassador). During 
the last two days especially the difficulties 
arising out of the abnormality of the situa- 
tion would have been immeasurably greater 
had it not been for his invaluable help and 
his untiring efforts on behalf of myself and 
my staff. We are heavily indebted not only 
to Mr. Morgenthau himself, but to every 
member of the United States Embassy. It is 
entirely owing to their exertions that the 
British and French subjects who were de- 
tained at the station on the night of my de- 
parture were allowed to leave on the follow- 
ing evening." 

The last British diplomat to leave 
Constantinople was Sir Edward 



THE TRUST OF THE NATIONS 39 

Pears, who is full of praise of Am- 
bassador Morgenthau's exertions on 
behalf of the British and the other 
nationalities, and he writes to the 
Daily News as follows : 

"I must express my admiration for the 
great powers of organization shown in deal- 
ing with an uDprecedented situation. Instead 
of having to deal with a few hundred of 
American citizens, it became necessary to 
attend to the pressing needs of probably 5,000 
French, Belgian, and English men and women. 
What we onlookers were most struck with 
was the clockwork regularity with which both 
the Embassy and Consulate worked. 

"The Ambassador must have had some 
hundreds of personal interviews, and his 
secretary, Mr. Tarler, was engaged from 
early morning to late at night, and everybody 
spoke of their courtesy and desire to render 
every possible service, in many cases to poor 
women and even men who were too alarmed 
to know precisely what they wanted." 

But not only does this emigrant 
Jew receive praise and admiration 



40 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

from individual leading politicians 
of the day, but the British Parlia- 
ment openly owns its gratitiide to 
this Jewish Ambassador, and in- 
structs the British Ambassador at 
Washington, Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, 
to convey its thanks to the American 
Government, requesting that the fol- 
lowing letter of thanks should be for- 
warded to the Hon. Henry Morgen- 
thau : — 

"His Majesty^s Principal Secretary of 
State for Foreign Affairs has received a tele- 
gram from Athens from His Majesty^s late 
Ambassador at Constantinople, in which he 
requests that an expression of his warm 
acknowledgement of the great services ren- 
dered by the United States Ambassador at 
Constantinople to him and to the British 
community during the past few days shouhl 
be conveyed to Mr. Morgenthau. No word. 
Sir Louis Mallett says, can express his sense 
of indebtedness to Mr. Morgenthau and to 
his staff. His Excellency accompanied Sir 



THE TRUST OF THE NATIONS 41 

Lc Mallett to the station, greatly assisting his 
departure, and that of his staff, and it was 
entirely owing to his exertions that a large 
party of British subjects, who were prevented 
from leaving on the night of his departure, 
were allowed to go on the following day. 

"I have the honour, under instructions from 
Sir E. Grey, to request you to be so good as 
to convey to IMr. Morgenthau the deep grati- 
tude and warm appreciation of His Majesty's 
Government for the friendly and invaluable 
assistance rendered by him, and at the same 
time, Sir E. Grey desires to express his own 
personal thanks to His Excellency for the 
help accorded by him to Sir L. Mallett/' 

The Missionary Review of the 
World for October, 1915, tells of the 
awful, precarious, and critical condi- 
tion in which the poor Armenians 
found themselves in Turkey, and con- 
cludes : — 

"So critical is the situation that Mr. Mor- 
genthau, the American Ambassador at Con- 
stantinople, is heroically and almost single- 



42 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

handedly fighting to prevent a wholesale 
slaughter of the poor Armenians." 

And from the Mail of October 2, 
1915, we learn that Ambassador 
Morgenthau, realizing that his efforts 
to save the poor Armenians from be- 
ing completely annihilated might be 
frustrated at any time by the enraged 
Turk, is appealing for $5,000,000 to 
transplant the Armenians that are 
still alive, to the United States, offer- 
ing to supply $1,000,000 himself. 

Is this not a most inconceivable as 
well as a most wonderful irony of fate ! 
While the Jew as a nation is stamped 
as ^'not wanted", yet they are not 
only sought after, but the most im- 
portant and most delicate, as well as 
the most trusted positions are com- 
mitted to their care I And here is a 
noble Jew straining every nerve to 



RUSSIA 43 

save the lives of the poor Armenian 
Christians within the Turkish Em- 
pire, and at the same time he cannot 
protect the lives of his own people 
within a Christian land. 

Russia 

It is here that the burning-bush is 
blazing with the utmost intensity of 
pain, and apparently without the 
slightest hope of deliverance. 

Since 1881, when the new May 
Laws came into force, with the en- 
deavour of the Russian authorities to 
interpret rigidly their meaning and 
carry them out to the very letter, 
they expelled the poor Jews from all 
villages and holy cities, thus over- 
crowding the already overcrowded 
Jewish Ghettos within the Pale Set- 
tlement. When all the universities 



44 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

and schools for higher education 
were closed to the Jew; when shame 
and degradation were imposed on the 
Jewish manhood and womanhood of 
dark Russia, the Jew realized the 
hopelessness of his existence and 
thought that he could save himself 
by taking hold of a straw. The large- 
hearted millionaire, Baron deHirsh, 
laid on the altar his whole fortune of 
£15,000,000 to transplant the Jewish 
people from Russia to a place of 
safety, and other Jewish philan- 
thropists united with him in this 
newly-found hope. Their efforts were 
so successful that in twelve years 
(1899-1913) they stimulated an emi- 
gration to America alone of 1,347,599 
Jews ; and at least 500,000 settled in 
Great Britain, Palestine, and many 
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RUSSIA 47 

But, oh! what a tragic awakening 
came to them in 1914, its fierceness 
shattering all their fondest hopes. 
When the new census appeared in 
Russia, it was found that the Russian 
Jewiy had increased to 6,060,000, and 
that during the past fifteen years 
there was an actual increase of 845,- 
000 Jews. This has revealed a most 
disappointing and disquieting situa- 
tion, for it means that the constant 
heavy emigration has been more than 
neutralized by the natural increase 
of the population. In spite of the 
trains and ships that carry the Rus- 
sian Jews by scores of thousands to 
other lands, there is a bigger Jewish 
population than ever cooped up in 
the Pale Settlement. Such a fact 
may well engender a feeling of des- 
pair in the hearts of the Jews who 



48 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

rely entirely on philanthropic 
methods to cope with the Jemsh 
problem. After all these endless wan- 
derings, these numberless institu- 
tions, these interminable meetings, 
this awful expenditure, the Russian 
Jewish problem has not advanced an 
inch from where it stood when the 
great exodus began a generation ago. 
While new Ghettos have been planted 
on both sides of the Atlantic, the Pale 
Settlement exists with all its grim 
misery, with a population driven 
closer to its walls. Six millions still 
tremble at the word ^'Pogrom." That 
is the net result of sixty years' striv- 
ing! 

It was at the very time of this 
melancholy, tragic awakening that 
the awful nightmare of this darkest 
of all wars in the world's history, 



RUSSIA 49 

came as a thunderbolt on the whole 
Jewry, and here, too, in this darkest 
of all lands, the Jew seems to have 
forgotten all his own sorrows and has 
rallied to the Russian flag with such 
a tenacity that the onlooker is 
amazed. The Russian Jew has prov- 
ed that there is a loyalty and a love 
for a native country which surpasses 
all other considerations, and no per- 
sonal barrier, however dark it may 
be, can come between them and their 
native home. Not only have the Jews 
who live in Russia shown their un- 
doubted loyalty, but Russian Jews 
living in England, America, and 
other parts of the Continent, went 
back to fight for Russia. This was a 
thing that even Jewish leaders did 
not expect, and none of the Jewish 
thinkers could rive a reason for this 



50 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

loyalty. The only thing they told us 
was this, that patriotism and loyalty 
know no bounds. 

Now what do we see? The three 
hundred and fifty thousand Russian 
Jewish soldiers are not only girded 
and warring, but their heroism, un- 
selfislmess, resourcefulness, and act- 
ual leadership when emergencies oc- 
curred on the very battlefield, called 
out the praises of the Grand Duke, the 
Commander-in-Chief of the Russian 
armies, who tells us, that they do not 
stand a whit behind the best of the 
Russian veteran regiments. Literally 
hundreds secured the highest award 
for bravery, viz., that of the St. 
George's Cross. So many have brave- 
ly laid down their lives, that some of 
the leading Jew-haters have professed 
conversion. And the agitation went 



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Lieutenant Frank de Pass, killed in action, the first Jew to 

WIN THE Victoria Cross 



RUSSIA 51 

SO high in their favour, that we read 
ill The Globe of October 1, 1915, that 
a Jew has been actually elected a 
State Councillor of the Russian Em- 
pire, in the person of M. Weinstein. 
More than this; at the present 
crisis it is of the utmost importance 
to clear the Russian people from the 
past atrocities and crimes committed 
on the poor and inoffensive Jews, 
and here leading Jews have put up on 
behalf of Russia, a defence which is 
not only ingenuous in itself, but also 
amazing. The Jewish World of 
August 22, 1915, tells us : 

"Germany's policy was to keep Russia in- 
ternally weak by setting population against 
population. In obedience to this policy she 
fostered in Russia the anti-Jewish feeling 
she had practised at home. . . . We have 
often said — that there cannot be freedom in 
Russia until the Russian bureaucracy is clear- ^ 



52 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

ed of German influence, with which it is so 
largely infested, and that there cannot be 
hope for our people in Russia, until freedom 
is secured there." 

The tragedy comes home very close- 
ly, when we realize that the three 
hundred and fifty thousand Jewish 
soldiers are not only fighting for Rus- 
sia, but they are killing their own 
Jewish brethren, who are serving 
with the opposing armies. ^ There is 
still a larger and sadder result; the 
six millions of Jews in Russia have 
become virtually enemies with their 
Jewish brethren in Germany and 
Austria. The following story, which 
appeared in the Jewish Chronicle, 
gives ample illustration of its tragic 
sadness : 

'^A wounded officer of the Austrian army, 
a Jew, was taken prisoner, and the local 
Rabbi of the 'enemy country' visited the poor 



RUSSIA 53 

man, sending hira comforts and necessities. 
After a day or so it was found that an opera- 
tion was necessary, and the Rabbi promised 
the soldier that he would be with him while 
it was performed. Unhappily it had a fatal 
result and resting in the Rabbits arms, he 
passed away, while the last rites of the dying 
were administered to him. In accordance 
with the wish expressed by the officer, the 
Rabbi wrote to the dead soldier's father, 
breaking to him in gentle and considerate 
language the sad tidings, and telling him that 
the Rabbi was with his son to the last. The 
Rabbi duly received an acknowledgement, 
warmly thanking him for all he had done, 
the father expressing his deep obligations. 
He said he was sure the Rabbi had done all 
he could in the circumstances to assuage the 
last moments of his son, ^But,' he added, 'the 
loss is a terrible one to me, not only because 
I lost a dear son, but because to my dying 
day there will be for me the mortification 
that my poor boy died in the arms of an 
enemy/ " 

Here is the Jewish agony in very- 
sooth. 



54 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

The JewisJh Chronicle of 9tli July, 
1915, tells us that over four hundred 
Jews have already received that most 
coveted Order of St. George's Cross. 

Now, all this agonizing loyalty and 
heroism, and these unselfish sacrifices 
have not in the least altered the awful 
condition of the suffering Jews in 
Russia; all the harassing disabilities 
are still in full vogue. So, the Jewish 
Deputy Friedman, at the peril of his 
life, made a strong protest in the 
Duma, and pleaded for his people : 

"Under the mask of military precautions, 
measures more than credible are taken against 
crimes that are imaginary. ... at a time 
when nations are struggling for the liberties 
and rights of small peoples, such terrible 
deeds embitter our friends and evoke joy 
among our enemies." 

Deputy Friedman pointed out that 
at the beginning of the war the Jews, 



RUSSIA 55 

although they had been compelled to 
live outside the pale of law for many 
generations, had nevertheless equal- 
led and in many cases excelled the 
non-Jews in their loyalty to their 
Empire. Thus they sent their only 
sons — who, as a rule, are exempt, 
into service. Many Jews volimteered 
for service in spite of the knowledge 
that positions of rank would be closed 
to them. Jewish students who had 
been exiled abroad because Russian 
laws denied them educational pri- 
vileges at home, returned at the be- 
ginning of the war to fight for their 
native land, or enlisted with its 
Allies. The Jews gave freely of 
money and goods to hospitals and 
other philanthropies. 

"I have before me," said Deputy Fried- 
man, "a letter from a Jew who had emigrated 



S6 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

to the United States. He says, ^I risked my 
life because I love my Fatherland more than 
life itself, and even more than the liberty 
that I enjoyed in America. I was admitted 
to the military ser^dce and lost my left arm. 
Then I was sent to the Province of Kurland, 
but no sooner had I reached Riga than I 
saw at the railroad station my mother and 
relatives who had been expelled on that very 
day from their native hearth by the order 
of the military authorities. Tell the gentle- 
men who sit on the right benches that I do 
not regret my lost arm, but I do regret the 
loss of that human - dignity which I had en- 
joyed in a foreign country.^ " 

The Russia-Polish- Jewish Tragedy 
is so momentous and pressing, that 
we cannot conscientiously leave off 
here, without giving some actual de- 
tails of the frightfulness and shock- 
ing suffering of the Jews in the east- 
ern war zone. We trust that in so 
doing we may be used of God to 
awaken a prayerful and a material 



RUSSIA 57 

interest on behalf of these unfortun- 
ate suffering people. The Jewish 
Chronicle for July 23, 1915, contains 
the following story of a terrible in- 
dictment : 

"Facts that have l>efin detailed to the pres^ 
ent writer by friends in whose impartiality 
and veracity he could have nothing but per- 
fect confidence, are backed up and confirmed 
to a large extent by an ofiicial document, an 
Order of the Day, issued by the Russian 
Generalissimo. This Order seems to have 
been promulgated in March last. It decreed 
nothing less than the expulsion of all Jews 
from military zones in Galicia, Bukovina and 
Poland. The excuse for this terrible deter- 
mination was an easy one to find ready to 
hand. It was the alleged disloyalty of the 
Jewish population. That allegation, need- 
less to say, could have been based at most 
upon the treason of a few individuals. But 
the Russian Government, bettering Burke, 
indicted a whole nation. The decree, too, was 
directed, not at any locality, nor at any gen- 
eral section of the population. It was a 
decree against Jews as Jews. 



58 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

"And now we have tlie result. Some two 
hundred thousand Jews who had been living 
in the confines of Kovno, Kurland, and 
Suwalki, were exiled by the Russian authori- 
ties, so that, in the technical language em- 
ployed, those districts might be 'evacuated of 
Jews'. Our unfortunate brethern upon whom 
this decree fell, were compelled to obey it 
by a short notice, varying from eight hours 
to thirty at the most. In that time two hun- 
dred thousand people had to leave their 
homes, their possessions, their all, and face — 
they knew not what ! What followed requires 
the pen of Dante adequately to narrate. Not 
one Jewish soul of all this vast population 
was allowed to remain, so that towns which 
had contained a large proportion of Jewish 
inhabitants were deserted. Aged men, little 
children, women — even those hourly expect- 
ing to become mothers — some clutching to 
their breasts their new-born babes; people 
insane, cripples, the blind; those who were 
sick unto death — there was no exemption for 
any. The decree, it must be admitted, had 
at least the merit of impartiality. For not 
only were the families of soldiers fighting at 
the front doomed by it, but soldiers who had 



RUSSIA S9 

received permission for furlough in their 
native towns, and soldiers, whose bleeding 
wounds were still unhealed, the Jewish nurses 
who attended them in the local hospitals, and 
even the Jewish military doctors — all had to 
go into exile. Even the rage and fury of 
battle respects the Red Cross. Sheltered be- 
neath that symbol are the wounded in war, 
and those who are attendant upon the sol- 
diers who have fallen. But this decree tore 
away Jews whose condition entitled them to 
safety, as if shielded by the sacred sign from 
the terrors of belligerency, and it sent them 
with their brothers and sisters into exile. No 
wonder we read that the poor people were 
maddened unto despair ; that they turned and 
destroyed their goods and chattels, their 
household gods of generations, preferring to 
leave behind them the ruin of their property 
rather than it should fall into the hands of 
their despoilers. 

Going Into Exile 
"It were futile to attempt to describe with 
anything like completeness what this horrible 
decree meant to the two hundred thousand 
poor Jews upon whom it fell. But the order 
for their expulsion was not the end by any 



60 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

means of the horrors which awaited them. 
For the conveyance of these people from their 
homes to some far-distant eastern province, 
there were provided some twenty-six 'extra 
trains', as they were called. Each of these 
'trains' consisted of from forty to seventy 
waggons, into which was huddled pell-mell 
this population of misery. The poor people 
had been able to take with them only a few 
of the most necessary of their possessions, 
and there in these 'trains' they were crowded 
together — men, women, and children of all 
kinds. 'Well-to-do and professional beggars,' 
as my correspondent puts it, 'sound persons 
and infectious patients, all of them thrown 
together in this living load.' None of them 
knew whither they were going. With ex- 
quisite disregard for the sufferings of their 
exiled passengers, the slow-moving 'trains' 
were not allowed to stop at stations where 
food could be supplied to the poor wretches. 
The 'trains' could stop only at a distance of 
at least one kilometre from any station. But 
the poor stricken people who were carted 
away in these 'trains' were perhaps not much 
worse off than the thousands and thousands 
for whom the 'trains' had no accommodation. 



RUSSIA 61 

but who had to leave none the less. In every 
sort of conveyance, for which, of course, ex- 
tortionate prices were demanded, these people 
rumbled away along the roads; or footsore 
and weary they tramped along outside the 
forbidden war zone. Like an avalanche of 
human misery they came into towns already 
filled with population in which poverty ruled. 
Cellars, barns, outhouses — every nook and 
cranny was filled with this exiled population. 
Even the Sjmagogues were turned into doss- 
houses. These destitutes had to beg for sheer 
life; they could, however, appeal only to the 
charity of the pauperism into which they 
were driven. But above all this they were 
forced to galling personal grief. For in the 
suddenness of this exile to which they were 
compelled, families became separated. Wives 
lost their husbands, brothers their sisters, and 
little children were parted from their mothers. 
Some were sent here, others were sent there, 
with regard to nothing save the capacity of 
the ^extra trains' or the availability of means 
for conveyance — all was subservient to the 
one idea that the war-zone districts must be 
evacuated of Jews. To such an extent did 
this misery of missed relatives occur, that 



62 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

special enquiry offices had to be established 
at several points outside the war-zones by 
Jews for the purpose of recovering lost per- 
sons. What life was like upon the 'extra 
trains' can as little be imagined as described. 
In at least one case the 'extra train' was not 
allowed by the local authorities to go into 
the station for which it was destined. The 
consequence was that the poor people, still 
huddled in these waggons, were compelled to 
return hundreds upon hundreds of miles. 
There they were not allowed to remain ; they 
were sent back to their destination! Thus 
they were hunted backwards and forwards for 
^YQ weeks. Twenty-eight of the poor passen- 
gers became insane through their sufferings; 
typhus broke out in this 'extra train'; and 
death, cruel lingering death — was the only 
mercy which it seemed to the harassed vic- 
tims would be shown them by a fate against 
which they were powerless." 

We do not mean to give the least 
impression, in giving the above de- 
tails, that we indict the Russian peo- 
ple; far be it from us. Our sym- 



RUSSIA 63 

pathies are very tender on behalf of 
the poor, suffering Russian people. 
We are keenly sensitive to all their 
heroic efforts and most noble sacri- 
fices they are so ungrudgingly laying 
on the altar in order to become a free 
people. We also feel that however 
sad and even ghastly this bloody war 
may be in its present effects upon 
poor Russia, it will be commensurate 
with the results. We believe that out 
of this fiercest of all struggles, there 
will emerge a new, free, emancipated 
Russia. With His Majesty the Czar, 
we plead and pray for the absolute 
solidarity of the Russian Nation: ^^It 
is more than necessary that there 
should be a complete imion of the 
Czar and his Government with the 
people." We are overjoyed with the 
new measures taken in order to break 



64 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

do^^m the walls of the Pale Settle- 
ment, hoping that it will prove a real 
beginning for a rejuvenation of the 
Jewry. 

But for the present the actual 
woes, sorrows, and agonizing tragedy 
of the martyrdom of the Great Jewry 
will never be fully told, nor are we 
able to comprehend the magnitude of 
its frightfulness and its horrors. 

The Hon. Louis D. Brandis, Chair- 
man of the U. S. Government Busi- 
ness Committee at Washington, tells 
us that no less than 500,000 Jews lost 
their lives since the war started, 
either on the battlefield or by the in- 
vading armies. 

With Mr. Herman Landau, Chair- 
man of the Central Committee, we 
feel that ^^A cry of frenzied despair 
comes from those countries. The vast 



RUSSIA 65 

cyclone of destruction, the most form- 
idable that the world has ever seen, 
has passed over the Jewish Pale of 
Settlement. Since the time of the 
Tartar invasion there has never been 
a country in Europe so utterly de- 
vastated. In many districts not a 
single congregation was spared ; syna- 
gogues were burned, hospitals and 
homes for aged and orphans have been 
destroyed and deserted. A popula- 
tion full of energy, of resources, and 
of intellectual abilities, is at once 
thrown into wretched poverty, the 
brunt of the terrors falling upon hun- 
dreds of thousands of refugees.'' 

Can the Watchman on the Walls 
of Zion be silent at such a dark time 
of Israel's sorest distress*? The words 
of the Prophet Isaiah (LVIII. 10-11) 
should be a timely message to God's 



66 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

people: ^'If thou draw out thy soul 
to the hungry, and satisfy the afflict- 
ed soul, then shall thy light rise in 
obscurity, and thy darkness be as the 
noonday, and the Lord shall guide 
thee continually, and satisfy thy soul 
in drought, and make fat thy bones ; 
and thou shalt be like a watered gar- 
den, and like a spring of water, whose 
waters fail not.'^ 

ZioisnsM 

While we do not think it is part of 
the Christian Church's duty to assist 
in the restoration of the Jews to 
Palestine while in unbelief, we should 
rather seek to point them to Moses 
and the Prophets, and urge them to 
flee from the wrath to come and turn 
to God: *^Por thus saith the Lord 
unto the house of Israel, Seek ye Me 




Dr. Mosei Nahum 



ZIONISM 67 

and ye shall live ; but seek not Bethel, 
nor enter into Grilgal, and pass not to 
Beersheba, for Gilgal shall surely go 
into captivity, and Bethel shall come 
to nought. Seek ye the Lord and ye 
shall live.'' Amos 5.4-6. 

But as ^^ watchmen upon the Walls 
of Zion," we must take a real interest 
in every movement within Israel. We 
have seen such hopeful awakenings, 
a rejuvenation of the whole Jewry. 
Forty flourishing colonies sprung up 
in the deserts of Palestine and 
Galilee ; waste places rebuilt ; Hebrew 
become a living language throughout 
Palestine ; ancient songs revived, and 
a new national hope almost estab- 
lished. And now, the war only four- 
teen months in existence, all these 
fond hopes and aspirations of poor 
Israel have evaporated. 



68 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

The catastrophe that befell the 
Jewish hope in Palestine is very hard 
to realize. It is a very conservative 
estimate that during the past century 
not less than £100,000,000 has been 
spent by the different Jewish phil- 
anthropists, such as Baron Edmund 
de Rothschild and other Jewish colon- 
ization and Zionistic Societies. 

Practically every Jew in the world 
has a little box in his house with 
*^ Great Alms for Palestine'' written 
upon it, and it is looked upon as a 
meritorious act to put money in that 
box, which goes towards the keeping 
up of the Jewry in Palestine, and the 
Jewish papers throughout the world 
were all in praise of the wonderful 
awakening, and visions and dreams 
filled the minds of the Jews through- 
out the world. And what do we find 



ZIONISM 69 

now? Four thousand years ago the 
Jewish people had fled from the bond- 
age of Egypt and found a haven of 
rest in Palestine, and now after four 
thousand years, the Jewish people 
have to fly to find rest in Egypt. 
Fifteen thousand Jewish refugees 
escaped with their bare lives, and 
praise Grod that they have found 
shelter in Egypt. 

Three notorious Turkish tyrants, 
Azymi Bey, Djemal Pasha, and Har- 
degg Pasha, the illustrious agent of 
the Kaiser, occupying positions in 
different parts of Palestine and 
Syria, have not omitted an oppor- 
tunity of showing their ill-will to- 
wards the Jews, and especially giv- 
ing themselves to devastate and erase 
practically out of existence all Jew- 
ish colonies; and to be a Zionist is 



70 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

now considered as a political crime. 
The shattered hope of the Jewish 
people in Palestine is perhaps one of 
the severest blows dealt to the wan- 
dering feet and weary breast. 

ZiON Mule Regiment 

The Jew, with no nation of his own, 
has to be ready to fight the battles of 
all nations, but the capabilities of the 
Jew have never been so fully realized 
as at the present titanic crisis in the 
world's history, for all over the dif- 
ferent battlefields we find Jews who 
have distinguished themselves and 
have become heroes. But to think 
that Jewish refugees from Palestine 
would form themselves into a fighting 
unit that would call forth the praises 
of military experts is something 
which the Jews themselves would not. 



ZION MULE REGIMENT 71 

have ventured to dream ; and here the 
Palestinian Jew refused to accept 
Turkish naturalization, preferring to 
leave everything behind — land, prop- 
erty, and all the ties of a home. 

When these refugees came to 
Egypt, they presented themselves to 
the authorities and told them that 
they were willing to fight for Britain, 
because they know the righteousness 
of its cause and they desired to 
show loyalty. So a regiment was 
formed, and Col. J. H. Paterson, 
D.S.O., was appointed in command, 
and telegraphed the following mes- 
sage to the London Jewry: ^Tray 
with me that I should not only, as 
Moses, behold Canaan from afar, but 
be definitely permitted to lead you 
into the Promised Land.'' After 
four months at the Dardanelles, the 



72 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

brave Colonel tells the world: 

"Everyone has to sacrifice something in this 
war, but though I would have been command- 
ing an English battalion had I joined my 
regiment, I do not in the least regret being 
with the Zion Mule Corps, for the men are 
brave and most serviceable, and ready to do 
anything. I am not the only one who speaks 
of them in this way, for the higher officers 
are well aware of the valuable services they 
render. General Delisle reviewed the corps 
the other day and was most complimentary 
to all. He said that they were all good men 
on the whole, and he congratulated me and 
my officers and men. A most impressive cere- 
mony took place the other day when the 
General commanding the armies pinned the 
Distinguished Conduct Medal on the breast 
of Corporal Grouchowsky and congratulated 
him most enthusiastically. . . . These brave 
lads who had never seen shell fire before most 
courageously unloaded the boat, loaded the 
mules and did a good deal of work while 
shells were bursting in close proximity to them 
and bullets were whizzing around them. Nor 
were they in any way discouraged when they 
had to plod their way to Seddul Bahr, walking 



ZION MULE REGIMENT 73 

over dead bodies while bullets flew around 
them. For two days and two nights we 
marched — the men walking along, but to all 
appearances almost fast asleep. Thanks to 
the Zion Mule Corps the 29th Division, which 
otherwise would have met with a sad fate, 
was kept in the trenches for a whole week, for 
the Zion Mule Corps was the only Army Ser- 
vice Corps in that part of the peninsula at 
the time.^' 

The gallant Colonel does not stand 
alone in praising his regiment, but 
the Commander-in-Chief, Sir Ian 
Hamilton, is no less warm in his ap- 
preciations of the Zion Mule Corps, 
and has decorated a number of them, 
and two with the most coveted D.S.O. 
The London Gazette states the honour 
has been bestowed ^^for conspicuous 
gallantry and ability on April 25th 
and 26th, 1915, near Cape Tepe 
(Dardanelles). When, on one occa- 
sion during the operations, most of 



74 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

the officers having been killed or 
wounded and part of the line had 
commenced to retire, Private Dia- 
mond showed the greatest courage 
and decision of character in assisting 
to stop the retirement and in leading 
the men forward again under a heavy 
fire. He also frequently carried mes- 
sages over open ground swept by a 
heavy fire, and exhibited a splendid 
example of devotion to duty." 

The Corps is one of the wonders 
of a revolutionary time. It adds an- 
other to the many delusions that have 
been broken in this war. The Jew 
has now proved his unquestioned 
adaptability, even to a military 
career. 

Net Results 
This is a brief, conservative retro- 



NET RESULTS 75 

spect of the Jewish position, the role 
he is playing in this fiercest of all 
struggles in the world's history. 

What will the Jew get in return 
for all his services, for his loyalty, 
and for his noble sacrifices'? What 
compensation will be made to the Jew 
for all his losses of lives and proper- 
ties ^ Britain and her Allies pledged 
their honour, to make good to poor 
Belgium all her losses, as far as com- 
pensation could be made to a nation 
which sufi^ered so much! But what 
about the Jews *? Three millions have 
actually become beggars. The forty 
Jewish colonies have been devastated. 
Five hundred thousand have been 
slain. In addition hundreds of thou- 
sands have lost business, properties, 
etc. Have any of the nations prom- 
ised redress? Not a word about it! 



76 the war and the jew 

Scapegoat ! 
We agree with Deputy Friedman : 
^^In a protracted war, success and 
failure naturally alternate, and it be- 
comes expedient to have at hand some 
one to blame for the reverses — in 
other words, a scapegoat. For this 
purpose, in Russia there has always 
been available the traditional figure 
of the Jew. No sooner did the enemy 
approach the frontier than rumours 
began to spread that Jewish gold was 
finding its way to Germans — by aero- 
planes, in coffms, even in the intes- 
tines of geese. The Jews, they said, 
got busy installing secret telephones 
and destroying the telegraph systems. 
The legend grew and reached incre- 
dible proportions. ... A series of 
measures altogether unprecedented 
and unbelievable in their cruelty 



PALESTINE 77 

and senselessness was applied to the 
Jews; and these measures being 
executed in the presence of the entire 
population, served to convey the im- 
pression to the people and to the army 
that the Government regarded the 
Jews as enemies ; that the whole Jew- 
ish population was outside the pale of 
the law.'' 

Not a whit behind were the similar 
accusations of Austria and Germany. 
So the natural conclusion is that, the 
Jew is the most suitable scapegoat; 
and furthermore, the Jew must never 
complain, for his loyalty may be ques- 
tioned at any time. 

Palestine 

But surely the Allies will sooner 
or later take away Palestine from 
the terrible Turk and they will give 



78 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

it to the Jews! We regret not even 
here to be able to give the faintest 
hope for the Jew. 

Realizing the importance of the 
Palestinian question and knowing 
how seriously God's people are con- 
sidering it, we venture to give the 
following review and possible future 
action which will be taken by Great 
Britain and her Allies, and in this we 
fully agree with the well-informed 
Near East: ^^The British Govern- 
ment, as is well known, was prepared 
to guarantee the integrity of the 
Turkish Empire for a decade. It 
suited us in many ways that this great 
Moslem Empire should hold to- 
gether as long as possible, some of 
her friends dreaming up to the very 
last that there was a possibility of 
progress and reform if only her rulers 



PALESTINE 79 

would devote their powers to her in- 
ternal development. Now, however, 
— misled by Germany — the die has 
been cast and Turkey has been drawn 
into a course of action out of which 
it is impossible that her Empire 
should emerge intact. As the Turks 
have ventured to use Palestine as a 
base for an attack on Egypt, and even 
now are over the frontiers at several 
places, it is hardly possible that 
Palestine can be allowed to continue 
in Turkish control. What this land 
has suffered for the long misgovern- 
ment of the Turks has been witnessed 
by tens of thousands of tourists, who 
have had no opportunity of seeing 
their devastations elsewhere. The 
Arab natives of the land — Moslem 
and Christian — have long looked for 
deliverance and to-day reliable in- 



80 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

formation shows that there is no con- 
siderable sympathy in any part of 
Palestine with the Turkish ventures, 
and that the Germans there, though 
masters of the armies, are so disliked 
that in the event of any rising against 
Christians they would almost cer- 
tainly be the first victims. 

^'The settlement of the future of 
Palestine is a thorny question, and 
one which, if not carefully managed, 
may lead to a whole series of future 
difficulties. What Palestine needs is, 
from the material side, a great ex- 
penditure of capital to develop its 
devastated agricultural resources. It 
will never be a rich land, it has no 
mineral resources of importance; 
there may be oil, but it has never been 
shown to be of commercial import- 
ance. Agriculture must always be its 



PALESTINE 81 

main support, and in tliis direction 
there are openings for great develop- 
ment in afforestation, in irrigation, 
and, in the hill country, in terracing. 
What has been already accomplished 
by the Jewish colonies — ^in spite of 
enormous political difficulties — is 
prophetic of the great things which 
might be done under more favourable 
conditions. 

* ' From the political aspect the great 
need is of an administration which 
will be strong enough and firm enough 
to hold the balance justly between the 
conflicting and antagonistic interests. 
Jerusalem in particular has been a 
city of dissensions, religious and poli- 
tical. Every religion or sect, and 
every nation has sought to be repre- 
sented there. The four main interest- 
ed parties are the Greek Orthodox 



82 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

Cliurcli, the Roman Catholic Church, 
the Jews, and the Moslems. The Pro- 
testant interests are too divided and 
too small to be considered beside these 
great bodies. Between the two 
ancient branches of the Christi-an 
Church there has been a perpetual 
feud with respect to Palestine — a 
rivalry which became acute in the 
Middle Ages, and which has been re- 
cently growing in acuteness with the 
re-establishment of Roman Catholic 
propaganda in Palestine during the 
past fifty years. It is well known 
that the millions of Riissia's Ortho- 
dox peasants view Palestine with an 
intensity of fervour out of all pro- 
portion to that of any considerable 
body of Western Christians. That 
the possession of the Holy Land 
would be considered a thing well 



' PALESTINE 83 

worth fighting for by the masses of 
Russia goes without saying. To the 
Roman Catholic Church the posses- 
sion of Palestine would also be a de- 
sirable prize. This would mean 
France or Italy having it, and the 
former of these nations has certainly 
never disguised her ambitions for in- 
fluence in Syria. But while the East- 
ern Church would never tolerate the 
Holy Land being in the hands of the 
Roman Catholics, and vice versa, it 
is even more certain that England 
would never allow — as long as she is 
responsible for the safety of Egypt — 
any first-class power to establish her- 
self in such proximity to that land. 
The attempt at revival of an inter- 
national State after the model of the 
medieval *' Christian Kingdom of 
Jerusalem" would be open to even 



84 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

greater objections, for the experience 
of all such attempts — as witness the 
latest experiments in Albania — ^is 
that a protected, semi-independent, 
international government would be 
very soon a nest of international in- 
trigues and rivalries. 

*^The third great interest is the 
Jewish. It is well known that the 
whole Jewish world has been stirred 
by the movement of ^Zionism,' and 
many thousands cherish the hope that 
the Hebrew race may find a centre for 
their religion and race in the land of 
their forefathers. Many wealthy 
Jews, moved by a sentiment of what 
one may almost call patriotism, and 
by the more practical desire to find 
some way out of the difficulties that 
beset so many of the humbler mem- 
bers of their race in various lands, are 



PALESTINE 85 

prepared, if security of property can 
be guaranteed, to put very much 
capital into schemes for developing 
the land. The Jews are the only 
people who have any great desire to 
settle permanently on the land. Any 
scheme, therefore, which is consid- 
ered for the future of Palestine must 
allow for them. The Jew is prepared 
to colonize the land, to develop it, and 
to make life there healthy and pros- 
perous on a scale which no other 
nation is likely to attempt. Why not, 
therefore, make over the land to the 
Jews? This is the serious proposal 
of some who view the question rather 
as an historical or religious than a 
practical question. Apart from the 
very serious objections which would 
certainly be raised from the Christian 
Powers, and Russia in particular, 



86 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

and the even greater difficulty, to be 
mentioned shortly from the Moslem 
side, the practical difficulties from 
the purely Jewish standpoint are im- 
mense. Although the Jews are one of 
the most ancient of races, they are 
to-day members of a number of 
nations, and certainly all those who 
are Europeans are too thoroughly 
identified with the nations of which 
they are members to renounce their 
political and national interest even in 
Palestine. Some, at least, of these 
nations are in sharp conflict with each 
other. It is not likely that the loyal 
German or Austrian Jew will see eye 
to eye with his co-religionist of Rus- 
sia, Prance, or England in the poli- 
tical development of even Palestine 
for many years to come. The rivalry 
between Jewish-German culture and 



PALESTINE 87 

the French-Jewish culture was acute 
in Palestine long before the present 
war, and even if they can unite in 
speaking and praying in Hebrew, the 
more educated members of the race — 
whom, it is to be hoped, will be at- 
tracted to Palestine in its renaissance 
— would be sure to find great political 
and educational differences. There are 
also great differences between the 
Eastern and the Western Jews, be- 
tween the Ashkenazim and the Sep- 
hardim, between the Jew by religion 
and the Jew — be he reformed, agnos- 
tic, or even Christian — by race. All 
these divisions would make the self- 
government of the community itself 
of great difficulty, let alone any at- 
tempt to govern others. The difficul- 
ties may gradually disappear, and as 
the Jewish population forms — as it 



88 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

will — an increasing percentage of the 
total population, it will, under any 
proper administration, obtain an in- 
creasing influence in the internal ad- 
ministration. But the time is not yet. 
^'The fourth interest in Palestine is 
the Moslem one. To the whole Mos- 
lem world Jerusalem is one of the 
most sacred spots on earth, only 
second to the Holy Cities of Arabia. 
The possession of Jerusalem, together 
with Mecca and Medina, gives the 
Sultan of Turkey the claim to be 
recognized as the Khalif of Islam. 
Not long ago the Moslems of India 
were stirred to their depths because 
of the rumours that the inviolability 
of the Sacred Rock in the Haram 
(the Temple Area) had been desecrat- 
ed by some English explorers. Any 
attempt connived at by Britain to 



PALESTINE 89 

take the Sacred Sites, especially 
those in Jerusalem and Hebron, from 
Moslem control would shake the con- 
fidence of millions of loyal Moslems 
in the British Empire. While Christ- 
ians desire freedom of access to their 
Holy Sites, and Jews, above all, the 
right of settlement (mostly in parts 
of the land of no special religious in- 
terest to the Churches), the Moslem 
views the actual possession of the 
land as being to him of vital import- 
ance. For this reason, if for no 
other, England was willing, even at 
great loss to the land and its inhabit- 
ants, to continue to prop up the Turk- 
ish regime. This having gone, where 
is a substitute to be found ? What can 
be done which will least disturb the 
present political arrangements, while 
allowing full opportunity for develop- 



90 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

ment and for the protection of the 
other interests involved? 

*^ Britain should strive to undo the 
mistake she made in 1840, when she 
intervened on behalf of the Porte and 
wrested Palestine from the Egyptian 
rule, to which it had been ceded by 
Turkey seven years before. How far 
different had the prosperity of Pales- 
tine been had it formed all these 
years an integral part of Egypt. Now, 
under an independent Sultan of 
Egypt, Palestine should be once again 
brought back to its natural owner. 
It would mean no violent change, it 
would remain under Moslem rulers, 
but the authority of Britain behind 
the Sultan would ensure equal justice 
to all. The old frontier ran north 
of Akka, and here — or, perhaps, more 
wisely, at the great Litany gorge, 



SCAPEGOAT 1 91 

further north — a frontier-line might 
be made for this new Egyptian Pro- 
vince. If Palestine must pass under 
other control than that of the Turks, 
where is there a more natural change 
than this? The Egyptian Moslems 
and the Arabic-speaking nations are 
practically one race. To-day increas- 
ing numbers of families have mem- 
bers working in the two lands. A 
common language and literature bind 
the land into one. To both lands this 
union would be most welcome. The 
rights of the Churches might be guar- 
anteed on very much the lines that 
have been accepted under the Turk- 
ish regime. As regards the Jew, 
there is hardly any possible plan 
which would so further the Jewish 
prospects of colonization, as it is 
quite certain there is no Power which 



92 THE WAR AND THE JEW 

looks upon them more sympathetical- 
ly than the British Government. 
Palestine has seldom in history been 
able to stand alone, and in the linking 
of this land again to Egypt a step 
would be taken iii keeping both with 
the indications of geography and the 
teachings of the past. 

' ' This will not only satisfy the mod- 
ern Zionistic leaders, whose cry is: 
*A legally assured home' for the 
homeless Israelites, but this would 
actually harmonize with the true 
prophetic vision of Isaiah xix. 23-25 : 
^^In that day shall there be a highway 
out of Egypt into Assyria, and the 
Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and 
the Egyptian into Assyria, and the 
Egyptians shall serve with the As- 
syrians. In that day shall Israel be the 
third with Egypt and with Assyria, 



HAS ISRAEL'S SORROW ENDED? 93 

even a blessing in the midst of the 
land. Wliom the Lord of hosts shall 
bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my 
people, and Assyria the work of my 
hands, and Israel mine inheritance.'' 
The latest details of the landing of 
the British Expeditionary Force on 
the Euphrates, and its marching to- 
wards ancient Babylon, makes one 
feel as if the commanders were using 
prophetic Biblical geography as their 
marching orders. 

Has Israel's Sorrow Ended? 

Israel's bitter cup of sorrow, full 
as it is, has not come to an end. The 
climax has not come. While we be- 
lieve that the above plans undoubt- 
edly will be followed, even this will 
not afford the Jew an abiding place 
of rest. 



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None of the nations can in the least 
determine Israel's peculiar destiny. 
Before Israel's restoration takes 
place, there must be a reconciliation. 
The foundations of a resting place 
for scattered Israel in Palestine, can 
only be laid on the *^ Stone which the 
builders rejected''. Jehovah alone 
will build up Zion, and He will lay 
for its foundation "A tried stone, a 
Precious Stone, a sure Foundation". 
(Isaiah xxviii. 16). And it is 
Jehovah alone who will bring them 
back a reconciled and a redeemed 
people. * ^Behold, I will bring them 
from the north country, and gather 
them from the coasts of the earth. 
. . . They shall come with weeping, 
and with supplication will I lead 
them: I will cause them to walk by 
the rivers of waters in a straight way, 



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wherein they shall not stumble ; . . . 
He that scattered Israel will gather 
him, and keep him, as a shepherd 
doth his flock.'' (Jer. xxxi. 8-10). 



**The Sun Rose Upon Him 



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When will the sun begin to shine 
upon Israel ? Like the first Israelite, 
it was not till after he was wounded 
that he recognized the Person with 
whom he was wrestling. It was then 
that he ^^ called the name of the place 
Penuel : For I have seen God face to 
face, and my life was preserved." It 
was after this awakening of the Pat- 
riarch and recognition of the Person, 
which resulted in reconciliation, that 
peace came. It was then that *^The 
sun rose upon him." 

The descendants of the first Israel- 
ite must also first of all recognize the 



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Person with whom they are wrestling, 
Who alone can bless them and grant 
unto them peace. Yes, this will be a 
great awakening. Zechariah 12.10 
tells us: ^^And I will pour upon the 
house of David, and upon the in- 
habitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of 
grace and supplications: They shall 
look upon Me whom they have pierced, 
and they shall mourn for him, as one 
mourneth for his only son, and shall 
be in bitterness for him, as one 
that is in bitterness for his first- 
born.'' Then, and then only, when 
Israel will be reconciled to the long- 
looked-for and rejected Messiah, the 
sun will begin to shine upon them, 
and the voice of singing and com- 
plete rejoicing will be again heard 
throughout Jerusalem, and her light 
will shine in all its purity. 



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At this momentous time in Israel's 
history, the voice of God speaks aud- 
ibly to His waiting people in the 
words of the Prophet Isaiah 62.6-7, 
R.V., *^Ye that are the Lord's re- 
membrancers, take ye no rest, and 
give him no rest, till he establish, and 
till he make Jerusalem a praise in 
the earth," 



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•'WHO SHALL SAY, 'THE FOUNTAIN 
OF THEIR LIFE IS DRIED UP, 
THEY SHALL EVER CEASE TO BE 
A NATION?' WHO SHALL SAY IT? 
NOT HE WHO FEELS THE LIFE OF 
HIS PEOPLE STIRRING WITHIN 
HIS OWN." 

Daniel Deronda 



